How do I run a DOS program?

[Guest]

Hello,

Years ago, I bought a radio control aircraft simulator progam that ran on
DOS. It came with a rs232 controller box to fly the plane. It was sort of
expensive so I kept it as I changed computers. I would like to get it to work
under windows xp. I vaugely remember doing it once but maybe that was before
service pack 2. I don't know if it matters. The thing is I can't get it to
work now. The program starts initially, recognizes the cotroller and freezes.
I was wondering if it was some configuation problem like the memory
allocation or something you manually set for DOS programs in windows xp. Is
there any link I could be reccomended? Any help would be appreciated. Thank
you.

 

[txj]

try this:

first run c:\windows\system32\command.com, then run your aircraft simulator
progam.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hello,

Years ago, I bought a radio control aircraft simulator progam that ran on
DOS. It came with a rs232 controller box to fly the plane. It was sort of
expensive so I kept it as I changed computers. I would like to get it to work
under windows xp. I vaugely remember doing it once but maybe that was before
service pack 2. I don't know if it matters. The thing is I can't get it to
work now. The program starts initially, recognizes the cotroller and freezes.
I was wondering if it was some configuation problem like the memory
allocation or something you manually set for DOS programs in windows xp. Is
there any link I could be reccomended? Any help would be appreciated. Thank
you.

Try opening a command window and run the simulator from there: start, run,
cmd <enter>.

You may find, due to the fact that XP - as previous NT versions - does not
permit direct access to hardware, that the program does not run properly or
at all.

In XP, open Help and Support. Search for "run dos program". You should
get a number of results (I get 30) some of which will tell you how to create
a .pif file containing memory options.

HTH
-pk